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...hindsight, stopping genocide is easy. But in Darfur, where it is happening now, stopping genocide is brutally hard. A contingent of 7,000 African Union peacekeepers currently patrol the Texas-size chunk of western Sudan where government-backed militias are busy exterminating the non-Arab population. The African soldiers are decent and brave, but they are engaged in a sham. The militias menace villagers in front of the peacekeepers' eyes; Sudan's government steals the fuel they need to fly their planes. In the words of U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, "The people on the ground are just laughing...
...people of Darfur: You have suffered unspeakable violence, and my nation has called these atrocities what they are - genocide. For the last two years, America joined with the international community to provide emergency food aid and support for an African Union peacekeeping force. Yet your suffering continues. The world must step forward to provide additional humanitarian aid - and we must strengthen the African Union force that has done good work, but is not strong enough to protect you. The Security Council has approved a resolution that would transform the African Union force into a blue-helmeted force that is larger...
...Ghosh says that Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. William West Fairborn, Ohio...
...urge the Security Council to intervene in Sudan's Darfur region. B) To urge the Security Council to intervene on the set of Oceans 13--the policy of appeasing Matt Damon must be stopped! C) To explain the plot of Syriana. D) To get Jet Skis banned from Lake Como...
...Hell" sure made more sense to me than any of those delusional claims of "Mission Accomplished." Larry Maysack Haymarket, Virginia, U.S. Ghosh says that Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. William West Fairborn, Ohio, U.S. Of all the accounts coming out of Iraq, this article has best captured the des- pair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. It's unfortunate that this...